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Graduate Program Summary

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Graduate Degrees Offered

M.S.; Ph.D.
Specializations - what's a specialization?
  • Adaptive Management
  • Agroforestry (M.S.)
  • Applied Ecology (Ph.D.)
  • Aquatic Ecology (M.S.)
  • Bio-Atmospheric Interactions
  • Climate Assessment and Impacts (M.S.)
  • Environmental Studies (M.S.)
  • Geographic Information Systems (M.S.)
  • Great Plains Studies
  • Human Dimensions
  • Hydrologic Sciences
  • Remote Sensing (M.S.)
  • Soil Sciences
  • Wildlife Ecology (M.S.)
  • Water Resources Planning and Management (M.S.)



  

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Description of Program

The School of Natural Resources offers graduate programs leading to a Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy in natural resources. The broad diversity of climate, habitat, hydrology, soils, and near-surface and subsurface geology across Nebraska provides a multitude of opportunities for field studies in each of these areas. Faculty also conduct research in other states and countries.

Excellent laboratory, computer, and field facilities are available for performing up-to-date analyses in all resource areas, as well as water chemistry, GIS, geophysics, computer modeling, remote sensing, and geospatial image analysis. State, federal, and private natural resource organizations provide unique opportunities for cooperative research and degree-related work.

Additional areas of study include: agroecosystems; carbon sequestration; conservation biology; cycling of natural and human-made chemicals; drought mitigation; environmental biophysics; environmental microbiology; environmental soil microbiology, chemistry and physics; fisheries management and ecology; geology; geomorphology and soils; geospatial analysis; global climatic change; global positioning systems; grassland ecology and management; ground water; high plains climate; human-wildlife conflicts; hydrologic modeling; isotope hydrology; lake ecology; landscape ecology; micrometeorology; natural resources economics; natural resource planning and management; natural resources law; riparian systems; rural sustainability; severe weather; simulation modeling; soil moisture; soil restoration; stewardship; surface water systems; urban habitats; water quality and chemistry; wetlands; and woodland habitats.

 

Graduate Bulletin

The Graduate Bulletin provides course descriptions, program requirements, and more:

Faculty and Research

Craig Allen Fish and Wildlife; Biological Invasions; Spatial Ecology
Tala Awada Plant Physiology; Leaf Gas Exchange; Plant Ecology
Jerry Ayers Environmental Geophysics; Hydrogeology; Groundwater
James Brandle Agroforestry; Shelterbelts; Crop Response to Shelter; Sustainable Agriculture and Societies
Mark Burbach Groundwater-Level Monitoring; Natural Resources Policy
Marv Carlson Stratigraphy; Tectonics; Oil and Gas; Waste Management
Xun-Hong Chen Aquifer Tests; Riparian Zone Hydrogeology; Contaminants Transport Modeling
Steven Comfort Soil and Water Chemistry; Environmental Soil Analysis; Organic Chemicals
Kenneth Dewey Climate Variations; Severe Weather Safety; Climate Assessment and Impacts
Patricia Freeman Mammalian Biology; Morphology; Zoology
Anatoly Gitelson Remote Sensing of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems
David Gosselin Groundwater Chemistry; Environmental Isotopes; Water Relationships; Hydrology
Paul Hanson Geomorphology and Landforms; Climate Change; Physical Geography of Nebraska and Great Plains
F. Edwin Harvey Environmental Geochemistry; Isotope Hydrology; Paleohydrogeology
Michael Hayes Precipitation Indexes; Drought Mitigation; Risk Analyses
Kyle Hoagland Aquatic Ecology; Water Quality; Pesticides; Limnology
John Holz Aquatic Ecology; Limnology; Hydrology; Plankton Communities
Q. Steve Hu Precipitation Variations; Climatology
Kenneth Hubbard Weather Monitoring; Climate Modeling; Evapotranspiration
Scott Hygnstrom Technology Transfer; Wildlife Control and Damage; Wildlife Ecology
R. Matthew Joeckel Paleozoic and Mesozoic Fossils; Environmental Geology; Mineral Resources; Sedimentology; Stratigraphy
Scott Josiah Forestry
Johannes Knops Plant and Ecosystem Ecology
Cody Knutson Drought Risk; Water Management; Human Dimensions
Mark Kuzila Nebraska Soils and Clays; Environmental Soil Analysis; Paleosols; Waste Management
John Lenters Climate Change and Variability; Hydrometeorology; Land-Atmosphere Interactions; Limnology
Xiaomao Lin Micrometeorology; Bioatmospheric Interactions; Climate Change Data Detection and Attribution
James Merchant Remote Sensing; GIS; Environmental Studies; Land Use and Cover
Sunil Narumalani Remote Sensing; GIS; Environmental Studies
Robert Oglesby Climate Modeling; Climate Change and Variability; Paleoclimatology; Land-Atmosphere Interactions; Climate Diagnostics
Mark Pegg Fisheries Ecology and Management; River Restoration; Aquatic Nuisance Species
Kevin Pope Fishery Ecology and Management
Larkin Powell Wildlife Population Ecology; Avian Ecology; Conservation Biology
Karl Reinhard Pathoecology; Palynology; Archaeoparasitology; Human Dimensions
Donald Rundquist Remote Sensing; GIS
Karina Schoengold Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; Irrigation Technology Choice
Patrick Shea Xenobiotics; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Soil Analysis
Joseph Skopp Soil Physics
Dan Snow Environmental Analytical Chemistry; Redox Chemistry and Microbial Respiration
Mary Spalding Water Quality; Non-Point Source Contamination; Volatile Organic Chemicals
Jim Swinehart Sedimentology; Stratigraphy; Petrology
Jozsef Szilagyi Watershed Hydrology; Watershed Modeling; Water Development
Tsegaye Tadesse Drought Monitoring; Data Mining Techniques
Steven Thomas Stream Ecology; Ecosystem Ecology; Biogeochemistry
Drew Tyre Statistical Ecology; Simulation Modeling; Population Dynamics and Ecology
Shashi Verma Bioatmospheric Interactions; Micrometeorology; Trace Gas Exchange
Elizabeth Walter-Shea Field-Based Remote Sensing; Bioatmospheric Interactions
Brian Wardlow Land Use and Cover; Drought; Biogeography; Climate-Vegetation Interactions; Remote Sensing; GIS
David Wedin Ecosystem Science; Forest and Grassland Ecology; Ecoydrology
Albert Weiss Crop Simulation Modeling; Agricultural Climatology
Donald Wilhite Drought; Climate Assessment and Impacts; Human Dimensions
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